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Latest Fires stories on ABC Sydney

The NSW Rural Fire Service is treating a bushfire in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, as suspicious. The fire has been revised down to an alert level after rain on the fire ground slowed the spread of the blaze....

The story of Bernie Schulte's incredible survival after being burnt in a bushfire keeps being brought back to life but he says he has no demons and the only therapy he needs is his family, his farm and good food.
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A NSW coroner has released a long list of recommendations in his report into the deliberately lit fire which killed 14 people in a Sydney nursing home. The November 2011 blaze was lit by a drug dependent nurse who was attempting to cover up his theft of prescription drugs. Friends and families of the ...